Tilloy-lès-Conty

Tilloy-lès-Conty is a former commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Ô-de-Selle.[2]

Tilloy-lès-Conty
Part of Ô-de-Selle
Chateau of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Location of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Tilloy-lès-Conty
Tilloy-lès-Conty
Coordinates: 49°45′18″N 2°10′39″E
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentSomme
ArrondissementAmiens
CantonAilly-sur-Noye
CommuneÔ-de-Selle
Area
1
6.34 km2 (2.45 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
247
 • Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
80160
Elevation48–135 m (157–443 ft)
(avg. 105 m or 344 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

The commune is situated 10 miles (16 km) south southwest of Amiens, on the D8e road

Population
Historical population of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population214217176196220228250
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest
  • The seventeenth century church of Notre-Dame

Château de Tilloy-lès-Conty

This is the ancient fief of the seigneurs of the Croy family, restored as a country house at the end of the 17th century.[3] It consists of a garden and a 9-hectare park, with a little English garden filled with 165 varieties of roses.

The gardens of the Pic-Vert

A 6000-square-metre garden built by Michel Driencourt around a large 19th-century Picardie farm, in four sections:

  • A shady garden with old Japanese cherry trees
  • An inner courtyard
  • An old orchard and vegetable garden
  • A conservatory of ancient varieties

2500 varieties of shrubs and perennials are on show with collections of delphinium, iris, poppies, magnolia, hydrangea and Japanese maples.

See also

References
  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
  2. Arrêté préfectoral 7 December 2018 (in French)
  3. Le château (façades et toitures), le hall d' entrée, ses deux paliers et escaliers, ainsi que son parc sont classés en totalité (cad. AD 10, 50 à 52, 72) : inscription par arrêté du 19 juillet 2004.


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